The Grand Secretary's Pampered wife

"A newly stitched wound, isn’t it?" Gu Jiao looked at his wound and said, "It's been torn and needs to be stitched up again."

The man’s wound was stitched up by a medical officer in the military camp. Only a few amongst the folk physicians were proficient in such operations.

The man still had a little doubt about Gu Jiao's medical skills, but when he looked at Gu Jiao’s serious appearance, he ultimately failed to refuse her.

Gu Jiao: "Turn around."

The wound extended from the man's back to his right waist, and it was really more convenient to suture his wound with his back facing her.

The man furrowed his brows but turned around obediently.

"I’ve used up all the anesthetic." So far, the medicine chest hadn’t filled it up again. Even Gu Jiao didn’t understand the reason for this.

Gu Jiao closed the medicine chest and waited for a while, silently reciting ‘anesthetic, anesthetic, anesthetic’ in her mind. As a result, there was still no anesthetic after opening it.

Gu Jiao told the man, "I can only stitch it up for you directly. You had to endure the pain."

The man was stupefied for a moment before he said to Gu Jiao, "You’re talking about Mafeisan? I don't need it. Just stitch it up directly."

Gu Jiao didn't bother to explain the difference between her local anesthesia and Mafeisan, and just proceeded to stitch up his wound carefully.

He didn't utter a single groan of pain during the whole process, proof that he was truly a tough man.

Only, never did the two of them expect that when the last stitch was sewn, an assassin would turn back with an extra bow and arrows in his hand. He raised the bow and put the five arrows on the bow together.

It was already too late for the man to take action at this point. He simply turned around and protected Gu Jiao in his embrace, intending to defend against these arrows with his body.

Just then, the man caught sight of Gu Jiao's calm and cold eyes, which was full of murderous intent.

Gu Jiao pulled out the dagger from her waist and shot it at the assassin's chest with a brandish of her hand.

With a muffled groan, the assassin fell from the roof, and the bow and arrows, that had almost been released, also fell along with him.

The man looked at this scene in disbelief!

Gu Jiao calmly squatted down and continued to stitch up the wound for the man.

"It’s done." Gu Jiao said.

The man stared at Gu Jiao blankly, seemingly still in a state of great shock.

Gu Jiao blinked her eyes at him and suddenly realized something, "Right, I almost forgot this!"

The next moment, she took out a bottle of her self-made jinchuang medicine and gave it to the man, saying, "This is better than the jinchuang medicine you folks have here!"

It wasn’t just a blind comparison. When Gu Jiao was stitching up his wound just now, she caught the scent of jinchuang medicine. She then carefully identified the ingredients of the jinchuang medicine applied on his wound and determined that it wasn’t as good as her own jinchuang medicine.

The man remained looking at her with an inconceivable look on his face.

Was there anything else? Gu Jiao thought and shifted her gaze to the assassin not far away and said, "If he’s not dead yet, you can take him back for interrogation. Or could it be that you want to arrest me?"

"No." The man finally came back to his senses. "You only acted in self-defense. If I am to arrest anyone, it’s those guys."

"Oh, then I'll be taking my leave." Gu Jiao brushed her hands together, carried her back basket on her back, and walked out of the alley calmly.

The shock that Gu Jiao gave the man was just too much. Even those assassins failed to stir up the slightest ripple in his heart.

After hesitating for a moment, he flipped onto his horse and chased after her, "I'll send you home."

"Hm?" Gu Jiao looked at him with her head tilted

The man paused before speaking again, "I also live in the direction of the Imperial Academy, we’re going the same way."

"Up to you." Gu Jiao walked to the Magical Cloud Inn and got on the carriage she hired from the market.

In fact, the man was worried that the group of assassins had not gone far yet, and that they would target Gu Jiao, so he offered to escort her home.

Fortunately, he didn't sense any movement from the assassins until they reached Gu Jiao's house. They probably didn’t continue to chase after them.

That's good then.

He didn't want to get her involved.

Gu Jiao paid the fare and the coachman drove his carriage away. It was also time for the man to leave, "Goodbye."

Gu Jiao nodded her head at him, "Goodbye."

"Yi? JiaoJiao! Big brother!"

Little Jing Kong saw them through the crack in the gate and ran over to them excitedly, his little hands hidden behind his back so that Gu Jiao could not see them.

He tilted his head aside and asked, "JiaoJiao, why are you back with big brother? Did big brother come as a guest in our house?"

This small appearance reminded the man of Gu Jiao’s look earlier. She also displayed this same appearance. They were indeed a family, even their words and gestures were quite similar.

Gu Jiao patted his little head and replied, "Big brother is just passing by."

"Oh!" Little Jing Kong thought for a moment, moved a step towards the gate and said, "Then I'll talk to big brother for a while!"

"Alright." Gu Jiao pretended not to notice that he was hiding something in his hand.

After Gu Jiao entered the house, the man asked Little Jing Kong, "What are you hiding in your hand?"

Little Jing Kong took his little hands out from behind, revealed a small box and said quietly, "JiaoJiao's birthday is coming, so I am preparing a present for JiaoJiao! This is my first time celebrating JiaoJiao’s birthday and I want to give her a surprise!"

The man: I'm afraid she's already seen through your surprise, little guy.

For people he was fond of, Little Jing Kong had a lot to say. Once again, he transformed into a little trumpet player and chattered nonstop.

The man did not find it annoying, he only thought that this child was really extremely cute.

He wondered how a woman, who could kill without blinking, could raise such an innocent little guy.

She must have protected him very well.

He would too.

While the chattering of Little Jing Kong sounded in his ear, the fragrant smell of food wafted out of the courtyard. In front of this unfamiliar house, the man felt a sense of home for the first time.

The man bid farewell to Little Jing Kong and headed home.

As soon as he entered the gate of the estate, a clever and fine-looking servant boy rushed over, "Shizi[1]! Why did you just come back? While you’re away from the estate, something big happened at home!"

"What happened?" The man asked.

"Alas." The servant boy had been itching to inform him of this, but at this moment, he suddenly didn’t know where to start.

The man ignored him and went into the house coldly.

The servant boy caught up to him and said, "It's about the second wife! She actually lost her child that year! The present young miss at home is not the flesh and blood of his Lordship! The real young miss is living outside and refuses to come back! I heard that... she grew up in the countryside and is timid in nature. She has never seen the world before, so she dare not come to the Marquis Estate!"

They already knew that Gu Jiao and Gu Yan had come to the capital, but the two refused to return home, so there were many speculations in the estate.

The servant boy sighed, "Oh, after raising her for so long, it turns out that Lord Marquis poured his affection to the wrong person. She’s actually not your own younger sister!"

Gu Changqing spoke with cold eyes, "I have no younger sister, only two younger brothers."

Gu Changqing would never acknowledge Yao shi nor would he recognize a pair of children born by Yao shi and his father.

[T/N: Really? Looking forward to that… Hehehe (｀▽ ´) ]

1. ↑ — Heir of a noble house; Heir apparent.